WebXR - Immersing yourself in science
Sandy Ressler, NIST - Siggraph 2019 BOF
Disclaimer: Mention of any commercial products does not imply endorsement by NIST or the author.
Ye' Ole' Agenda
- Web
- Hot Stuff (fire science)
- You're Magnetic (simulation)
- Math Functions in VR
Web
- It's still the web, stupid
- Distribution
- My kingdom for an URL
and you think your demo is hot!
360 degree fire
Crown Fire
Matthew Hoehler/NIST
BOB - Burn Observation Bubble
Matt Hoehler
"In the Eye of the Fire"
PRICE fire - comparison with simulation
Kevin McGrattan and Glenn Forney /NIST FDS/Smokeview simulation
Matt Hoehler/NIST
Smithsonian Institution Preparedness and Response in Collections Emergencies (PRICE)
Interacting with 360 Video
- Authoring
- Data display
- Interaction
Making Burn Interactive
- Toolchain
- VR Hardware (Oculus Rift)
- Software WebVR/XR - a-frame
- WEB WEB WEB
- Development also via glitch
(shockingly is not a toy!)
Making Burn Interactive (2)
- Tasks
- Data Wrangling
- Prototype data display
- Synchronize data and video
- video "currentTime" is main magic
- Set up locations of temperature sensors in video (by hand using specialized tool)
- Link locations with data (also by hand coding)
- Added video zoom and rotation capabilities..primary user will be on desktop
- Mouse for desktop / Controllers for VR
Desktop Burn Demo
Desktop Burn Demo VR (2)
MAGNETS
BITCHES
It's Magnetic
The Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (OOMMF) project at ITL/NIST - Mike Donahue, and Don Porter.
traditional 2D visualization
It's Magnetic
Justin Kauffman
Visual Analysis of Micromagnetic Reversal
Magnetic simulation with RIFT output
Justin Kauffman
Paraview with RIFT in use
Justin Kauffman
Use immersive visualization to understand and characterize the dynamics of magnetization reversal in micromagnetic devices.
New (for us) workflow
- Paraview modeling
- Export data
- still missing semantics for "arrows"
- view via WebVR or Paraview VR
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
in VR
Last Year's DLMF VR
New DLMF VR
Moving towards integration with DLMF web site
Gallery of Functions -> public access to multiple file formats
Towards DLMF Integration
- Standalone surface functionality in VR
Standalone video here
Quickselect
Standalone video here
Single surface tool
Standalone video here
Single surface tool in VR
Standalone tool in use with RIFT
Justin Slud (developer)
DLMF Gallery
- Multiple file formats
- Ability to use surfaces as graphic assets
- Public domain with source attribution
Prototype DLMF Gallery
Speaking of Multiple Formats -> STL
3D printing
3d printed dlmf objects photo here
Conclusions
WebXR for the win
Science Baby
Acknowledgements
- Matthew Hoehler (NIST fire guy)
- Adam Lenker (NIST SURF)
- Justin Slud (NIST SURF)
- Frankie Willard (NIST SHIP)
- Justin Kauffman (NIST postdoc)
The talk is OVER
Immersive WebXR
By Sandy Ressler
Immersive WebXR
SIGGRAPH 2019 Immersive Vis BOF
